You have to take seriously what Congress intends.

There seems to be a lack of seriousness and commitment to help the hardest hit homeowners keep their homes.

the program is virtually shut down.

I think the whole point of the program was to help people who owned their homes to be able to stay in their homes.

The process is so impossibly complex and cumbersome.

So is that acceptable, that 19 people were denied their opportunity to speak?

First of all, I would hate to have one of my children at a college that charges them thousands of dollars in university fees.

you said that these activities where literally, these conservative students or newspapers have been confiscated. That's speech, isn't it?

Where was Treasury when you had people driving Mercedes or renting office space in the Taj Mahal?

I hope you didn't spend a million dollars on it, because I think for a million dollars I could have gone in there with a sledgehammer and a wheelbarrow.

One of the reasons this really, really bothers me is that we sent out $140 billion in improper payments last year.

Do conservative students who pay those same fees have a right to demand that their activity fee not be used to fund speakers or programs with which they disagree?

I don't like the idea of us having to have hearings like this and then coming back and trying to fix a problem that should never have occurred to start with.

So they could take action? They could go to the university and demand, and the university would be required to comply with that demand not to invite somebody that these students disagreed with?

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